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Re:Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features ... by xrange on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:20PM (#14212686)
Thank you for signing up to help in the porting effort for FreeCAD and Pyspread to Python 3. Free software projects depend on volunteer contributors like you.
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Re:Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features ... by dbcurtis on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:11PM (#14213099)
So I've been following FreeCAD since it started. Even tried to get my head around the code base at one point, but the hacking guide was mostly nonexistent in those days, so I moved on to projects that did not skip that very important step.

Just to put a stake in the ground, when did FreeCAD start? When did 3.0 come out, along with the announced end-of-life date for 2.7?

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Re:Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features ... by xrange on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:22PM (#14213189)
Wikipedia says that the first release of FreeCAD was in 2002:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD

...Python 3.0 was released in 2008:

https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

...It looks like the port of FreeCAD to Python 3 stared in 2015:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12534

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